The 46 class was a type of mainline electric locomotive built by Metropolitan-Vickers and its partner Beyer, Peacock & Company in England for the Department of Railways New South Wales. They later ope
4639 at Central railway station in 1982
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Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English general engineering company and railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Openshaw, Manchester. Charles Beyer, Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson fou
New South Wales 46 class locomotive
…The 46 class was a type of mainline electric locomotive built by Metropolitan-Vickers and its partner Beyer, Peacock & Company in England for the Department of Railways New South Wales. They later operated for the Public Transport Commission, State Rail Authority and FreightCorp…
A Beyer, Peacock and Company builder's plate from 1885
Prins August, built for Sweden in 1856, preserved at Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle, Sweden. It is said to be the oldest operating steam engine in the world.
The Gorton Foundry in 1870
Beyer, Peacock's innovative condensing locomotive of 1871 – the inaugural motive power for London's underground railway. The large black pipe and another on the right-hand side took steam from the cylinders to the side tanks rather than ejecting it into the atmosphere as on conventional locomotives.